Human Capital in History
The American Record
432 pages
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2 halftones, 61 line drawings, 49 tables
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© 2014
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- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo
1. Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective
Lawrence F. Katz and Robert A. Margo
2. Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century
Nora Gordon
Comment: Sarah J. Reber
3. The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents’ Assimilation in the United States, 1850–2010
Ilyana Kuziemko and Joseph Ferrie
4. Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000
Hoyt Bleakley, Dora Costa, and Adriana Lleras-Muney
5. The Female Labor Force and Long-Run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective
Claudia Olivetti
Comment: Francine D. Blau
6. The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women’s Labor Force Participation
Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins
7. Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950–2010
Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak
8. Is There a Case for a “Second Demographic Transition”? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 US Fertility Decline
Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi, and Brad J. Hershbein
9. A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings
Claudia Goldin
Comment: Cecilia Elena Rouse
10. The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs
Edward L. Glaeser and Yueran Ma
11. Claudia Goldin
Stanley L. Engerman
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Introduction
Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo
1. Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective
Lawrence F. Katz and Robert A. Margo
2. Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century
Nora Gordon
Comment: Sarah J. Reber
3. The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents’ Assimilation in the United States, 1850–2010
Ilyana Kuziemko and Joseph Ferrie
4. Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000
Hoyt Bleakley, Dora Costa, and Adriana Lleras-Muney
5. The Female Labor Force and Long-Run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective
Claudia Olivetti
Comment: Francine D. Blau
6. The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women’s Labor Force Participation
Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins
7. Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950–2010
Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak
8. Is There a Case for a “Second Demographic Transition”? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 US Fertility Decline
Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi, and Brad J. Hershbein
9. A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings
Claudia Goldin
Comment: Cecilia Elena Rouse
10. The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs
Edward L. Glaeser and Yueran Ma
11. Claudia Goldin
Stanley L. Engerman
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Review Quotes
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